The same police who are supplying ICE "agents"? And/or who implicitly agreeing with and ignoring the presence of ICE in their own city? I'm sure this will resolve quickly, then!

I suppose you recognized the sarcasm...? But your response doesn''t match reality, regardless. Where are all the ICE arrests and/or covictions?

Even in "blue" or "purple" states, not seeing anything close to your claim... unless I'm missing something obvious?

In case you're wondering, the "Japanese" section of the shirt has a mixture of actual Katakana (usually used for "style" or foreign words) and Hiragana (used for native words and [grammar] case markers). Plus, random shapes that look somewhat like Katakana. Some appear to be backwards Katakana, while some are simply made up (like the "R" character).

Also, the shirt says you need to turn you head to read it... But traditional Japanese, which was written top-down and right-to-left, was readable without turning your head. T L K
H I I
I K N
S E D
_ _ A

(edit: Vertical text is weird in Markdown)

I realize it's meant as a joke. But if you know Japanese, even if only how to read the non-Kanji, alphabetic characters (Katakana and Hiragana), it borders on lame. Especially since they faked a bunch of the characters.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... Slow down there, boss! You're suggesting the US gov't is setting up a false flag event via entrapment??? UnHeArD oF1!1!!!!111!!

An anecdote in agreement:

The CEO of my company left in September 2025. For years leading up to that, there were 3-4 layoffs/riffs (edit: yearly) of approx. 5% reductions (edit: per reduction). Never hired more US employees except for VP and C-level until we became very top-heavy. What jobs they do replace are primarily India and some in Argentina, many are contractors. They "cook the books" by avoiding taxes and "creatively" avoiding reporting gains/losses due to having a large amount of contractors. 2025 ended up losing a ton of customers due to churn (i.e. leaving or not renewing contracts). Most of our customera are US or North America-based and the contractor teams have such high turnover that customers are sick of us not supporting them well anymore.

Know where that former CEO is now? An AI startup.

Papers probably was the wrong one to bold.

Effects (i.e. personal effects) is likely better and the first definition I found is "Items of personal property that one carries on one's person, including identification, jewelry, and clothing.".

I'd argue a phone falls under this definition.

The last three sentences are not quite accurate. It's not necessarily that nothing existed before the the big bang. It's a singularity event where mathematically we can simply not know what existed at/beforehand that moment. It is somewhat comparable with the event horizon of a black hole.

There is something happening/existing, otherwise a black hole would not be able to occupy space or affect light. We simply do not have the ability currently to understand what that is.

By definition, that is not nothing. It is a that we cannot know/understand it, at that moment. Notably, a lack of evidence is not evidence of nothing.

I would like to see measles, polio, and bird flu (preferably, in that order) spread through members of the executive branch (and those appointed by such) and the oligarchy. I see no concern there.

While not thoroughly informed on gun evolution, definitely agree! They were clearly used in the 1500s onward, at least for European usage. 1806 simply marks a year of notable military pistol production (like the Harpers Ferry model) although maybe others?

I somewhat agree... but struggling with WHO updates and submits their resume for "fun"?? Like, just getting the "setup" for those job applications is ACTUAL work, in and of itself... For half those applications, you need to deal with creating an "application portal" account which stops me before I get anywhere.. 😅 Why even submit the resume, at that point? What am I missing here..? People like the entire PROCESS and/or think it's "fun"??? Is it "really" possiblye to find any aspect of the process.... "fun"? I suppose I'd agree if misunderstanding it?

Even the Sun's light can take thousands of years to actually exit the sun.

The wording is not how light from our sun works... Unless you're simplifying greatly. It's not in a maze or some container that takes thousands of years to escape. The light is based on photons that are emitted via nuclear fusion then some mass being converted to energy/photons.

I've read that photons can bounce around (i.e. be absorbed and re-emitted) an estimated 40,000 years... but we all should understand that is a) an estimate and b) an estimate for the inner-most photons. Photons created via near-surface level areas of the sun may be emitted outward from the sun near-instantaneously.

All this to say that the light/photon(s) don't/doesn't start out as light. However, once a photon exists, it may be trapped for thousands of years due to the shear amount of mass trapping it and needing to be absorbed/re-emitted until space-bound!

What I think you are failing to understand is that this book doesn't just mention their school board... no. It lists them!!

There was a gold standard. Current fiat money in the US is based on an imaginary "base" that the Federal Reserve (itself, an institution notoriously based on an imaginary base). There is a reserve of gold, but it no longer matches the amount of minted coins/printed bills.

Edit: reserve->standard as noted in a reply

This sounds like schizophrenia to me. Particularly the weirdness and occasional paranoia. There's no agreement on the causes of it, as far as I know. Whether AI can either cause it or push someone over the edge, I have no clue.

My brother has schizophrenia and is one of the most technologically inept people I know - both before the symptoms and currently. It is known to have existed well before modern computers.

Also worth noting that schizophrenia onset usually occurs in adulthood with and average age between late teens and early 30s. Later onset is less common, but known to occur.

Various websites suck in one browser or the other or simply don't work in more than one single browser. We're not that far away from the days when Internet Explorer (IE) was the only thing that loaded a site (often for something work-related... groan)

That said, if you need Chrom(e/ium) and want a non-data-sucking version, I think Ungoogled Chromium is your best bet currently.

For the Firefox side of things, there are already several forks that aim to do things differently/better. Floorp is one I see recommended regularly. There seem to be a larger number of Firefox forks focusing on security/privacy than Google forks, but this is the most well-regarded from my research.

Simultaneous post-enshittification from both Chrome/Chromium and Firefox is probably (hopefully) leading towards more active development/contribution to these (and other) forks!

Given the context about college (and thereafter), I think they mean "career-ist". Basically, assuming that your only place in life is to get a job/career for the purpose of being a cog in the proverbial corporate wheel.

On my 25th birthday, my roommate and I had the great idea to do Skittles vodka. If you're not familiar, you basically separate each color of skittles and use filters (think coffee filters) to infuse the color/flavor into the alcohol you poor over.

It mostly tasted like vodka. And even though I had a brewery tour and bar outing under my belt, it still tasted like pretty much pure vodka.

What I remember of the night was pretty good overall. But waking up in Skittles-colored vomit... both hilarious (in hindsight) and gross.

Interesting fact I learned when replacing detectors is that small humans (i.e. toddlers) are more likely to wake up and respond to human voices/words.

There are detectors, for example, that say "Fire" (in English-speaking countries, of course). And kids are statistically more likely to wake up and respond to the smoke detector alert than the brain-piercing, ear-splitting buzzers that are more standard.

I put the above ones in bedrooms and the horrible, deafening ones in hallways and common areas. I also went the 10yr lithium battery route. Had to search online to order these, because they're not generally available at retail stores.

Difficult to tell if this was a joke or autocorrect. Being forced to play a game (sudoku) as a loss, sounds... odd.

Seppuku is the Japanese word for a type of honorable suicide by cutting your own stomach in a Z shape (or at least attempting to).

There are a lot of modern languages that don't have a pure "yes"/"no". Likely, this was not uncommon in history either.

Alternatives to "yes"/"no" in those languages can vary. They generally include methods such as "not (that)" or negating the (sometimes (mis-) implied/interpreted/understood) verb of the question.